UniSAT-6

UniSat-6

GAUSS (La Sapienza University of Rome)

Mission

The satellite is built in 50cm x 50cm x50cm box-shape bus, optimized for piggy-back launch. All instruments are powered by solar cells mounted on the spacecraft body, with maximal electrical power of 30W. Satellite has no on-orbit propulsion or attitude control, and only passive attitude stabilization system based on permanent magnets. Unisat-6 released in orbit four Cubesats, 25 hours and 38 minutes after the separation from the Dnepr Launch Vehicle. This timing was requested in order to comply with the specifications of the launcher and to make the release just a few minutes before being visible from Rome. Those cubesat satellites are 2U ANTELSAT, AeroCube-6, 3U LEMUR-1 and 3U TigriSat.

Launched and active. The liftoff of the 20th Dnepr rocket, took place as scheduled on June 19, 2014, at 19:11:11 UTC from an underground silo facility No. 370/13 in the Dombarosvsky ICBM deployment area in southern Russia. The rocket carried the KazEOSat-2 (DZZ-MRES) remote-sensing satellite for the imaging of the Earth surface, which was built by the European consortium Airbus Defense and Space for the government of Kazakhstan and a cluster of 36 secondary payloads for customers from 17 countries, including Deimos-2, Hodoyoshi-3, Hodoyoshi-4, BugSat-1, SaudiSat-4, AprizeSat-9, AprizeSat-10, UniSat-6, Tigrisat, AeroCube 6, ANTELSAT, Lemur-1, BRITE-CA 1, BRITE-CA 2, NanosatC-Br1, Duchifat-1, Perseus-M1, Perseus-M2, QB50P1, QB50P, Tablesat-Avrora, 11 satellites Flock-1c, POPSAT-HIP 1, PACE, PolyITAN, DTUSat-2.

This video was taken by the UNISAT-6 satellite on the 27th of July 2014 starting at around 9:22 UTC.

The satellite was rotating at 6 rpm. The video is accelerated aproximately by x2 and it is composed of pictures taken aproximately every 1.1s. The camera was never intended to make video only pictures, in this case the camera was set to its lowest resolution possible (160px) in order.